About Lee Durham Stone: Lee Durham Stone was born in the Bluegrass State (Lebanon); grew up in Central City, Muhlenberg County, as a printer’s devil in his father and uncle’s newspaper (the Central City Times-Argus); graduated from the University of Kentucky (1970); and inspected strip mines for the Department of Natural Resources in eastern Kentucky (Hazard Area Office). From Appalachia, he served three-and-a-half years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica (1979-1982). After Peace … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lee Durham Stone
Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration by Lee Durham Stone
This history book focuses on Western Kentucky, particularly Muhlenberg County. It examines racial relations and violence after the Civil War to school integration in the 1960s. A strength of this work is the contextualizing of the events that are explored in detail, expanding outward to other areas of the Bluegrass State and the South. This volume begins with the author remembering the uncanny segregated experience of going with his white fourth-grade class to see "The Ten Commandments" movie … [Read more...] about Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration by Lee Durham Stone
Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink
Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink Little does racist attorney Hiram Garbuncle know the danger he’s getting into when he reluctantly defends a black man brutally beaten by two policemen during a traffic stop and charged with resisting arrest. Plot twists and turns take the reader on a suspense-filled roller coaster ride as the attorney’s negligence causes a mistrial. He then discovers incriminating evidence against the cops, and his new challenge becomes how to keep himself and his client … [Read more...] about Blood on Their Hands by Bob Brink
Interview with Author – Bob Brink
About Bob Brink: Bob Brink is a journalist who worked with several large newspaper organizations and a group of magazines. His byline has been on thousands of news stories, features, and entertainment reviews. He now is embarked on authoring books. His newest book, the legal thriller Blood on Their Hands, follows Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died, a roman à clef about a real, sensational 1976 murder that made headlines for 15 years, and recently made news again with a new … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Bob Brink
Migrant Sun by Ramon Mesa Ledesma
Observing a mysterious white culture while living on the ragged edge of poverty in an unaccepted Mexican subculture of America was acutely troubling to a child simply looking for safety, acceptance and a place to belong. These poems are of the brutal struggles of hard work in dangerous times. These poems are about a papá who never wavered under the difficult challenges of working and raising a family in a foreign country as a migrant laborer and a mamá who dedicated herself to loving and … [Read more...] about Migrant Sun by Ramon Mesa Ledesma
Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis
Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis Olivia wants the 80 acres in far off Michigan that her father left to whichever of his offspring wants to stake a claim. As Olivia says, “I’m sprung off him just as much as Avis or Tobey.” The problem: she’s seventeen, female, and it’s 1841. Mourning Free knows how to run a farm and Olivia has complete trust in him. The problem: he’s the orphaned son of runaway slaves and reluctant to travel and work with a white girl. He especially fears the slave catchers … [Read more...] about Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis
Interview with Author – Paulette Benjamin
About Paulette Benjamin: I've loved writing since I was eight years old. I knew that I wanted to write when my forth grade teacher instructed us to write a sentence using the word "Fireplace". I ended up writing over a half of a page. I believe that it was my love of writing that brought my first sister into being, (I think.) I had an older brother already, but by the time I was around seven, I started wishing, and then writing about having a sister and about all of the fun things we would … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Paulette Benjamin
